Karate for Kids is a fun, happy and well established karate school in West Lindfield.
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Karate for Kids provides karate classes and karate lessons for children in a safe, happy and encouraging environment where your children will have fun, get fit and be active. With our karate classes they will learn self defence skills, learn how to deal with other kids at school as well as developing personal discipline and confidence while having fun and making new friends.
"Thankyou Sensei very much for your kind words. My son is really enjoying his training with Karate for Kids and I have seen a huge improvement in him already. He has tried other karate schools but none of them match your ability and patience with the kids. Once again Thank you, you're a great teacher." Peter
Where are we?
Karate for Kids classes are held in NSW in the Lindfield Community Hall, West Lindfield. This is a central location, at the local West Lindfield shops and a short drive from adjoining suburbs including Chatswood, Lane Cove, Lindfield, Killara, Gordon, Pymble and St Ives.
The teacher
The Karate for Kids Chief Instructor, Sensei Caroline Manly, designs all the classes and ensures they are a good mix of high energy, fitness and fun. She was taught in the traditional style of Okinawan Goju Karate and has spent many years adapting the traditional Goju Karate exercises and techniques to suit the young students' of today. She says "I recognise that all forms of martial arts have something to offer the student so I have to admit I have borrowed the best ideas from taekwondo, judo, aikido, kung fu and even boxing!" She is a good role model with plenty of teaching experience and her assistant instructors are graded black belt with a good understanding of how to teach kids. All of the instructors have been checked by the Department of Education Working with Children Check
Even if you don't live close to Lindfield where the classes are held you will find this website informative and useful as a comparison to other schools of Martial Arts.
Take advantage of Sensei Caroline's teaching experience and the knowledge she is happy to share with you.
Classes focus on...
Parents often don't know what to look for in a school of martial arts - Should the classes focus on
- fitness or
- discipline or
- games or
- self defence
To say a martial arts school only teaches Self Defence is very limiting as learning self defence skills should be seen as developing "life skills" - coping with all the things life throws at you, working with others, building personal discipline, growing in confidence and learning to be the person you were meant to be.
The classes are...
Karate for Kids classes are dynamic and fun and they suit everyone. We never focus on any ONE thing but make sure the classes are well rounded, incorporating games, fitness activities, self defence skills and basic techniques.
Confidence boosting
The instructors at Karate For Kids will show your children how to do the techniques properly. By joining us your children will be encouraged to learn how to do the skills properly so they won't hurt themselves or each other and they'll learn that karate is for the dojo (training hall), with other karate friends or to be used in self defence and not as a way of bullying other children at school. Sensei Caroline takes this last point very seriously and in the 28 years of teaching she has promoted the idea of using karate to boost kids' confidence. In virtually every class she reminds the kids that karate is to never to be used to bully other children. Using karate skills in an aggressive manner is totally against the concepts and principles taught at Karate for Kids.
